Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis's Year as a Schoolteacher

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Also: DeSantis’ students speak out about ‘hostile’ behaviour towards Black people, partying and inaccurate lessons (The Independent)

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Source: New York Times

Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher

At a private school 20 years ago, the future Florida governor was a popular history teacher and coach. But some students were taken aback by his comments on the Civil War and abortion.

By Frances Robles
Reporting from Rome, Ga.
Nov. 5, 2022
Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

Twenty years ago in the foothills of northwest Georgia, a new history teacher joined the faculty of one of the state’s oldest and largest boarding schools.

He was a brash young Ivy League graduate, an athlete who made it clear to anyone who was listening that this sojourn at Darlington School was a pit stop on his way to bigger things; maybe he would even be president some day, he told his students.

Amid the revolving door of recent college graduates who taught at one time or another at the independent private school, the teacher, just 23 at the time, was the talk of the 20-year class reunion last month at Darlington for one important reason: he is now governor of Florida.

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As a baseball and football coach at the school, Mr. DeSantis was admired and respected by his team. As a teacher, he was remembered by some former students as cocky and arrogant. He once publicly embarrassed a student with a prank, hung out at parties with seniors and got into debates about the Civil War with students who questioned the focus, and sometimes the accuracy, of his lessons.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/us/desantis-high-school-teacher-georgia.html

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Source: The Independent

DeSantis’ students speak out about ‘hostile’ behaviour towards Black people, partying and inaccurate lessons

Graig Graziosi
Sat, November 5, 2022 at 2:42 PM·4 min read

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was reportedly “passively” mean to a student because she was Black and taught inaccurate information regarding the US Civil War when he taught high school early in his adulthood.

The New York Times reported this week that Mr DeSantis spent his first year after graduating from Yale University teaching at Darlington School, one of the Georgia’s oldest and largest boarding schools.

At least one student from his days teaching there, Danielle Pompey, claimed he treated her poorly, and she believes it was because of the colour of her skin.

“Mr Ron, Mr DeSantis, was mean to me and hostile toward me” she told the Times. “Not aggressively, but passively, because I was Black.”

She said once while he was teaching about the Civil War, she felt he was making arguments for the justification of slavery.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-students-speak-hostile-behaviour-184242917.html

Original The Independent link (paywall): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/desantis-teacher-florida-high-school-b2218576.html

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1. Attending parties with HS seniors. Beyond creepy.

Typical Repub all the way.

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2. Since he's definitely running for president, this post should be bookmarked for retrieval next year

… and the year after. Don’t let it fall down the memory hole.

Partying with students? Ew.

Teaching a revisionist history of the Civil War? A whopping big red flag.